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16/02/2013

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SINGAPORE: I'm Waking Up To... Halcyon - Building With Sticks One of the artists we've got on our radar this year is Halcyon (Zhong Ren Koh), who's managed to come out just a little more broken in ...

30/12/2012

While I waited for The XX’s Coexist to match the minimalist thrills of their debut album, and as I pondered why I still lifted my skinny fists to Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Allelujah...

27/12/2012

Perhaps Nocturne is the atmospheric pop opus that Wild Nothing has been building up to ever since Jack Tatum’s winsome debut Gemini turned up in 2010. For his sophomore album, Tatum taps into an ec...

20/12/2012

Keith, on Dylan's "tales of carnage, Shakespearean vengeance and unrequited desires" ...

Philosophers, pimps and pale kings may argue for the better angels of our nature, but riled-up septuagenarian Bob Dylan is having none of that s**t. His 35th studio album Tempest drips with tales o...

19/12/2012

Under the overwhelming weight of an audacious album title like America, Dan Deacon has found an inexplicable spontaneity in a most exuberantly arranged pop record. The diverse connotations that Ame...

18/12/2012

This is trippy! the Psalms, glad you found it! Glad I made it for your blistering set outside the sub during NightFest.

something old that we've stumbled upon recently.

15/12/2012

This month Brian picks .gif! All of us are really digging this

SINGAPORE: I’m Waking Up To… .gif – Diatribe .gif embodies the illusion of data passing off as real-life moving images by giving us an electronic amalgamation of observatory life ...

09/12/2012

The first of Keith's best albums of 2012!

Adventures in Your Own Backyard, the homespun fourth album by Patrick Watson, finds the Canadian singer-songwriter and his bandmates expanding their joint creative discipline in the confines of the...

08/12/2012

I know we haven’t been the most regular in writing this year. But the year-end review is something we’d never let go, so look out for our take on the best releases this year. Thanks for...

08/12/2012

SINGAPORE: I’m Waking Up To… Gema – Before Gema’s debut EP Before is a sprawling canvas of sounds, textures, layers, beats and samples that come together to form a cohesive ...

27/09/2012

I finally caught the Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal exhibition at the Art/Science Museum last weekend. Presented in a strictly chronological and unapologetically didatic approach, the exhibition s...

19/09/2012

Keith introducing to us the Divine Fits and their "shared musical ethos, all tightly-wound pop hooks and raw energy"

Divine Fits, the new project fronted by Spoon’s Britt Daniel and Dan Boeckner (former member of Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs, both bands now defunct), is an amalgam of the two’s shared...

14/09/2012

This month, Brian picks FAUXE's debut EP for our monthly MAP contribution. Get it here! http://phyla.bandcamp.com/album/ubuntu-ep-phyla001

SINGAPORE: I’m Waking Up To… FAUXE – Be My Love A mysterious force has been brewing in Singapore, bubbling beneath the shiny veneer of saturated city lights. The glitchy imperfect...

08/09/2012

Me? I’m getting better everyday. I was revisiting one of my favourite Jim O’Rourke albums this week, and was surprised at how well, albeit quietly, the popping and rocking Insignificanc...

28/08/2012

I can’t wait to listen to Love This Giant, the album-length collaboration between David Byrne and St. Vincent which will be out sometime next month. The band’s third album Strange Mercy (2011), a c...

16/08/2012

Thanks Brian for a stellar pick as always!

SINGAPORE: I’m Waking Up To… MUON – Aqua Assault The muon is an elementary particle similar to an electron. MUON is also a musical entity that exists in Singapore, whether as one ...

06/08/2012

“Bird of Paradise” seems to push all the right buttons. A processed background terrain crackles with the warmth of vinyl and the uncertain static of broadcast radio. Meanwhile, a singul...

18/07/2012

New Rocketswan EP out now, released by Happy Teardrop Music! Just got mine in the mail: )

5 track album